The University of Southampton

An Afternoon on IoT for Smart Cities

Kevin Brown, IBM, presenting at the event
Kevin Brown, IBM, presenting at the event

This afternoon event on the topic of IoT for Smart Cities included 9 presentations from academia and industry, along with 7 supporting posters to showcase research.

The event had around 70 attendees, with a mix of students, research staff and academics from across the University, and industrial visitors external to the University. See the programme and presentation slides and posters, below, for more information.

The event was sponsored by the University's EPSRC Platform Grant on Wearable and Autonomous Computing for Future Smart Cities.

Logistics

Event Location Map
Building 53, Highfield Campus

Date: Wednesday 06 March 2019
Time: 14:00-17:00

Location:
Room 53/4025 (Mountbatten Seminar Room)
Building 53 (Mountbatten Building)
Highfield Campus
Southampton
SO17 1BJ

This event was open to anyone. Capacity was limited, and registration was mandatory in order to attend.

Event Programme 

13:30 Arrival  
14:05 Welcome and Introduction Dr Geoff Merrett and Dr Seb Stein
Centre for IoT and Pervasive Systems
ECS, University of Southampton
Session 1
14:15 Machine Intelligence for Smart Cities  Prof Gopal Ramchurn
Head of Centre for Machine Intelligence
ECS, University of Southampton
14:40 Bicycle-Based Air-Pollution Monitoring Dr Alex Weddell
ECS, University of Southampton
14:50 LoRaWAN – City Wide Air Quality, A Use Case Dr Steven Johnston
Engineering, University of Southampton
15:10 Making it Easy to Implement Secure Communications to enable Smart Cities Andrew Poulter
DSTL and University of Southampton
15:20 Posters, Networking, and Refreshments
Session 2
15:50 BIM, IoT and Emerging Technology Kevin Brown
Master Inventor
IBM Hursley
16:10 Opportunities for Web Science: From Local to Global Tom Barnett
Southampton Connect
16:20 Smart Cities and Transportation John Preston
Head of Transportation Research Group
Engineering, University of Southampton
16:40 Smart City IoT Deployments Alex Barter
Barter for Things
16:50 Closing Remarks Dr Geoff Merrett
Head of the C-IoT
ECS, University of Southampton
17:00 End of Event

Selected Photos from the Event

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Poster and Networking Session at the IoT for Smart Cities Event
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Poster and Networking Session at the IoT for Smart Cities Event
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Poster and Networking Session at the IoT for Smart Cities Event
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Poster and Networking Session at the IoT for Smart Cities Event
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Dr Obaid Malik Presenting at the IoT for Smart Cities Event
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Dr Steven Johnston Presenting at the IoT for Smart Cities Event
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Dr Alex Weddell Presenting at the IoT for Smart Cities Event

All presentation slides and poster downloads included here belong to the presenter and/or their organisation, and have been made available with the individual's explicit permission. All content (including the title, slides, narrative) reflect the views of the speaker, and not (necessarily) those of the University of Southampton.